Hi! I’m coming across another problem in both firefox 3.0.11 and IE 7.0. When editing a post or creating a new post, the field is missing to enter a title for the post… so the post ends up title-less. This happens even when I go to edit a previous post that had a title.

Okay. I retract my previous statement. LOL After only tweaking a few font values and getting my sidebar the way I like it, I decided to try to edit my last post to add a title since my other posts with titles reappeared… but again, there is no field for me to enter a title for the blog. Could it be one of the gadgets I’m adding that causing the problem? Is this a Blogger problem?

I love this template! I had just uploaded it a couple days ago from another site. But I wanted to try and upload it from here since the middle part seems to be wider than the one I have (mine is over lapping).

I downloaded it and it was a zip file. (like all the templates I’ve tried.) but it wont let me extract the files, got errors.

Hi Stephanie, which program did you use to unzip the file? I am using winrar and it extracts properly. You would have to uplkoad the WaterColor XML file to blogger after you have unzipped this downloaded file. Let me know more details so I can help.

Thank you for posting this template. I love it! Is there any way to get the dark teal headers to allow more than one line? With the writing in white, if the title goes over one line then it is lost in the light teal.

The folder you downloaded from here is in zipped format. You would need to download free winrar or 7zip program to unzip the folder before you can find a watercolor.xml file. That is the file you use to upload to blogger. Try that and let me know if it works for you.

Hi Jess, it could be our server. We are currently doing an upgrade to it with much more capacity to host your images for free. Please bear with us. After this upgrade the images will appear good and up

I dont happen to see the brown strip that you are seeing. As for the page 1 and page 2 labels. Are you referring to that on the image screenshot here? It was named as Page 1 and Page 2 for labels which is actually just simply labels, it does not categorize the posts per page. Hope that helps!

Actually I just thought that the Page 1 and Page 2 on the template looks nice. Hence just asking about it. But if does not appear, it is still ok

As for the brownstrip…it is actually on the left and right of my blog (whereas this template above does not have this strip). I have some problem with this because at times when I go into my blog, my publish date does not show (it is out of the screen). I can fix this by zomming the page to less than 100 then zoom it back to 100%.

Another additional problem I have (it was commented by those that wanted to comment on my page)…is that when they typed their comment and want to submit, they cannot go to the verification word box (it is hidden below). Someone told me if they used the TAB button, then he can go into the verification box. Hope someone here can try it out as anonymous to know what I actually mean. THanks

hey,
i love it and ive never seen a blog like this, but i have one problem with the register, when i save my new posts they werent shown like yours with that purple date sign on the left hand side, there only stands undefined, how can i change this??

hi, this is by far the best-looking template I’ve seen and it fits really nicely with my blog. But I’ve noticed that my posts float about. Sometimes it’s something simple like opening the favourites tab on the left hand side of my IE8 browser, but I’ve noticed it’s doing it as well when I try to add a widget. Is this something others have experienced? Cheers

I’m using IE8. Can you see it from that browser or do you not use it at all?

The post just shifts to the left occasionally, outside of the white background. As I said in my previous post, it moves either when I resize the window (by opening the favourites tab on the left hand side of the browser, which makes the main window slightly smaller) or else when I add a widget to the side bar of the template. I would appreciate if anyone usine IE 8 can tell me if they had this problem as well.

Ok I got what you meant. I don’t see this problem on Firefox or on Google Chrome but only on IE 7. Dont have IE 8 here. But then again, IE is actually one of the worst browsers compared to #1 Firefox and #2 Google Chrome. You should change to Firefox Moira

IE uses outdated browser technology and the only reason why still so many people uses it is because it comes together as default for new computers =/ Right now about 36% of the world uses Firefox.

I finally got it. Whew. I’m a bit clumsy in the coding department, but with your instructions (and only one little intervention from my hubby) I got Watercolor downloaded onto my blog and it is amazing!

I’ve been thinking about renewing my stale blog for more than a year now. I finally started poking around looking at themes. I thought I’d have to change over to wordpress since they seem to dominate with the really cool themes, like Watercolor.

Imagine my utter delight when I found You, someone who had made Watercolor possible for Blogger’s like me!

So, I totally want to hook you up with a gift card. Will you email? For real!

I have emailed you Currently all blogger templates do not work well on mobile phones. I will speak with my developer if they could be done so for mobile phones though frankly I dont think Blogger has the template mobility widget for templates yet.

Hi James,
Oh, of course! I had a custom header on my previous template and it showed up nicely in mobile browsers. Not a big deal, but yeah, blogger is kinda podunk about some things. I love ‘em, since I’ve been with them since 05. I’m willing to be patient since they really made it so simple for techno-illiterates like me to navigate ourselves in the blogosphere. Brand loyalty I think it’s called.

Ok, I’m gonna go over to Amazon and get you that gift card. Seriously. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge, time and passion with the rest of us!

Its my pleasure helping you and the community. If one day you ever need help or want to port over to wordpress, let me know I will help you with it including the hosting. I am a big fan of wordpress myself. Actually this site is created on wordpress too

Thanks James. I’ll keep that in mind. We’ll see how it goes with the new Blogger digs for a while. I’m part of a collaborative site that is about to move to WordPress. That’ll be a great way for me to see how it drives. I’ll let you know…stay well, and all the best….!

Ok, I see a ton of people have asked about changing the font but no one has answered so I will try. I would like to have my header be the same as the header on this page. If you look at my blog, the heading is in a very plain font and doesn’t match the rest of the template at all. As someone else said, when you try to go to Layouts > Fonts & Colors, you cannot change anything. How can I get the header font to look like it does here?

I will check with the coder on the font type and see if it can be changed.

Are the images not showing up for you now? We had to run a few server hardware upgrades and maintenance about a week ago which caused the images to go offline for about a few days at different intervals. But now that the server has been upgraded, the images should stay online 100%.

Hi admin..i’m eqa from Malaysia..love this template but having problem to use it..i know where to change template, but after downloaded from here, the file appeared as images (folder), readme (notepad) and watercolour (for internet something)..i really don’t know how to apply them..i mean which one have to be copied/uploaded to our edit HTML part?

Hi. I too love this template but like others have requested, would love to change the font of my header (neither here nor there) to a script style such as you show on this page! How do you change the font and size of both the header and the small text underneath? What do I need to alter in the HTML and where?

I am afraid right at this moment it is not possible, my coder is still finding a way out for that on Blogger platform. This template is originally from WordPress and hence you see that stylish header font as it is possible with WordPress.

But of cause if you really want a custom stylish header font on your blogger blog, you still can. But you need to design it, upload the image somewhere and then change the html code to show the image instead.

Can you post your blogger url in the website field of the comments so I can take a look. You have to go to Layout -> Edit HTML and serach for the page 1 page 2 tag and then edit it to point to the pages you want.

I believe you can add pages in blogger, if cant then just add a post. Afterwhich if you want to point page 1 to eg. About us page. You can create a post on About Us and link to it from the codes. Hope that make sense.

Hi, this is beautiful but I am stuck- i can’t get to my navigation/tool bar to add another post or change/delete this template! what can I do? Basically, it’s like I am a reader rather than the author of the blog….

i read through previous posts but didn’t find the solution to my problem. on a previous template from blogger you could have on it who is following the blog. i’ve lost that feature with this wonderful template i suppose, but how do i get rid of it from the top of my page? thanks so much!!

I love this template! The only problem I’m having is that the text isn’t inset enough when I make blog posts, so it crosses over the “notepaper” edge and into the beige border area. I’m using a 1366×768 display. It looks fine at 800×600, but doesn’t translate well to widescreen. How can I tweak this so it looks right?

Hi – I am getting the undefined date appearance as well however, when I follow the instructions at the beginning of the thread they point to an area that isn’t there. I couldn’t find the date format on the:

I’ve read through all of your answers regarding the change of font on the header. I understand that right now it is not possible to do this in blogger since it was created in wordpress can you however provide us of the name of the font so that we might create a banner for ourselves if we know how? I’ve searched through all the fonts I’ve got but can’t seem to find one similar that looks nice Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer!

I liked this template. Quick Editing shortcut (pencil image) is not appearing below the post (at the bottom of each post). How should I enable it. In post setting It is enabled. I use get that with my previous template. Also search is not working. Can anyone help on this.

Yes this is a wordpress converted template so unfortunately the quick edit button isnt there. You would have to go to blogger dashboard to edit post, a little inconvenience but that can be easily done when you open the blogger dashboard on another tab

As for Search feature, it seems to be working on the demo. Can you post your blogger url in the website field so I can take a look on the Search function?

Ooops. Sorry to be a pain in the ass. But I had to remove the word verification for it to work. I’ll put it back up again so that you might be able to see what I was talking about with it being cut off. Now I know who the anonymous was, maybe?

Here’s what it says when I try to edit my layout:
‘Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog.’

But I have problems having the Page 1 and Page 2 tags on the top as seen in this image too…You mentioned it’s for Labels right? but my labels are on the side bar instead…how can I make those beautiful tags on top to appear?? Please advise.

Also what is that font for the header? I managed to change it into a more curvy font but I still think the orginal is better.

Hello! What a beautiful template, and I would love to use it for my blog. However, as you can see, next to each title there is the word “undefined.” Can you tell me what I need to do to make that disappear?

I really love this template, but I’m not sure how to install it. I’ve clicked on the “Installation and Settings” link but that only takes me to the main site. Some guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, I am NUTS about YOU and your TALENTS! You are awesome! Thanks sooo much for making a template that is CLASSY. I looked and looked and looked.
I am a bit of a DUMBASS-as far as CODE–so I’m hoping you can help.
I did-first read–all of the comments–so as NOT to repeat and be a pain in the buns.

* Can you help with the following issues:

1) The TITLE/Header will not allow me to post all of my info about what my blog is about. In my last blogs I added GADGETS of TEXT to the HEADER to get this in. You have no GADGET on the top and 500 characters is not enough.
2) The SEARCH button is cute but does NOTHING–at all for me.
3) I used to have the GADGET called “PAGES” and I could add it under the BLOG TITLE but above the POSTS and you could click on the 4 pages and get my HOME page, My ABOUT ME page, CONTACT page, DISCLAIMER page. I tried to add it to the bottom since you have a GADGET thing there but it does NOT show up. Its almost invisible and useless at the bottom.
4) The bottom GADGET add on seems to NOT really show up. I tried to add stuff. You cant see it.
5) I would like to widen the BLOG POST part a a little without messing it up.

Hope that I made some sense?!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! You are VERY talented!

Hi . … my name Siska from Indoensia, I am still learning and new commer.. I love the the template with the title water color.

But I have dificulites in installing, I wanna ask you , I had download the tempate, and its appear zip, but when I open the zip it appear xml format, what is the program calls ? should I install any program ?

I am having problems with comments though. I have had one person tell me they left a comment, another I got an email verification through, and I have posted a comment myself, but none of them show up on the blog (it says 0 comments).

I’m sure it is most likely me doing something wrong rather than the template, but thought I should check.

Its okie. Found out my error. But I ahve another problem with the Flickr box at the bottom. Can I get rid of it? Will it affect me in anyway? Cos I managed to add on to my Flickr account through adding a Gadget from the Blogger Dashboard. So just wondering of deleting the bottom Flickr box will cause any harm.

The template is beautiful, the only problem, No one can comment on my pages, I even tried it, I selected Allow Comments, in the edit page. I went to my blog and tried to comment and when I click the button nothing happens. Can you Help?

Yes, go to your blogger dashboard Layout -> Edit HTML and thee do a CTRl + F search for the current keywords you see in the menu tab, you will find the codes for those 4 menu links, just copy one example of the code lines and paste it to create more.

As for removing the flickr box, you didnt remove any or text that does not belong to the flickr code did you?

i’ve not been able to figure out how to get more than 4 menu links in blogger. from the posts i’ve read on various sites, it seems it’s do-able by editing the header php file, but as this doesn’t seem to be available in blogger, i don’t think that works.

there was also another post from a support person that said it was too difficult and therefore not possible.

what a shame. if you do have any suggestions, i’d be happy to hear it.

I do have the same problem as ‘God’s lil Lamb’ but I couldn’t solve it.
On my ‘GuestbookPage’ I wanted my visitors to leave a comment but if you click on the button nothing happens.
It would be very kind if you could help me with that and
how can I post photos on a page (not the mainpage – that’s alright)…?

Greetings. As many have said before me, wonderful job on all the templates you and your associates have come up with so far. You make blogging even easier to express ourselves.

I do have a problem and feel very foolish in not being able to figure it out. I have modified the font for the header and sub header which is fine on the home page, but… creating pages in addition to that, my format does not apply to those pages.
I went to Posting > Edit Pages > Add Page and added pages that way. I have my tabs at the top as it should be after tweeking them in the page gadget. So as far as I know, I have followed the proper steps in getting the pages there, I am just not sure why any modifications I have made to the template has transferred to those pages as well.

I am using the beautiful Water Color template, but I would like to change the color of the font in my posts. I know I have to edit the code, I’ve tried, but I can’t seem to figure out where to make the change.

Well…bless you for answering the redundant questions of your admirers for going on a full year now!

Quick question – the only problem I had was getting the “undefined” issue resolved, which I followed your instruction for another question asker and the solution worked great. However, under every blog post I make, the text “S&S” appears. What is that? And how can I remove it?

I am afraid you cant add the blogger navbar. This was a converted template from wordpress. Most converted or designed templates for blogger do not come with the blogger nav bar unless you use the templates from blogger. Sorry about that.

Hi! I just installed this theme on my newly created blog. It’s really wonderful! Thanks!!!

I just have one problem: the date of my post does not appear. Instead, the error “undefined” is displayed on the box where the date is supposed to appear. Do check my site if I didn’t describe the problem that clearly. Help will really be appreciated. Thanks!

I followed your reply to a previous comment (3rd among all the comments) but it didn’t work. I tried making the time format the same with the date format (e.g Wednesday, June 17, 2009) and voila! I fixed the undefined error. Thanks again for this great template!!!

Hello! Love love love your template. Absolutely gorgeous.
However I don’t know how to get the ‘share buttons’ to appear. I have ticked the box in ‘edit blog posts’ that says ‘show share buttons’ but they do not appear on my blog.
Can you advise?
Much much appreciated.
D.
x

Hi! Quick question that’s totally off topic. Do you know how to make your site mobile friendly? My blog looks weird when viewing from my iphone4. I’m trying to find a theme or plugin that might be able to fix this issue. If you have any recommendations, please share. Many thanks!

Hey there! Quick question that’s completely off topic. Do you know how to make your site mobile friendly? My weblog looks weird when viewing from my apple iphone. I’m trying to find a template or plugin that might be able to correct this issue. If you have any suggestions, please share. Thanks!

Apple now has Rhapsody as an app, which is a great start, but it is currently hampered by the inability to store locally on your iPod, and has a dismal 64kbps bit rate. If this changes, then it will somewhat negate this advantage for the Zune, but the 10 songs per month will still be a big plus in Zune Pass’ favor.

Really love Water colors and I love the simplicity of the design – so I incorporated it on my blog. Being a novice, I am having some difficulty with the date tag, date under each title and the menu bar. can you help me to fix this problem. thanks!